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1995, 30 May
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Order of SVK General Staff concerning measures for the elimination of weaknesses in
the armed forces and other developments underlying the loss of territory
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REPUBLIC OF SERBIAN KRAJINA
GENERAL STAFF OF THE SERBIAN ARMY
Problems in the military organization
and the elimination of negative developments
as one of the causes underlying defeat and
loss of SVK territory
MILITARY SECRET
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
30 May 1995
O r d e r
Our young state, the RSK, is being created at the wish of all its citizens as a guarantee of
their life in freedom.
Unfortunately, in spite of many eff orts, many functions of the state have not come
alive. We are witnessing lack of unity in our leadership, poor functioning of the legal
system, black-marketeering and war profi teering. All these developments have had a
negative eff ect on the functioning of the command system. Weaknesses in the military
organization have demoralized both our troops and our citizens.
Owing to weaknesses in the state and in the SVK, so far the Miljevac plateau, Maslenica,
Divoselo and Western Slavonia have been lost.
In order to put an end to such unwanted developments and prevent continued threat to the
state and to the people, a number of actions have been taken, focusing on the integrated
functioning of the state and of its bodies, including the SVK, in the strengthening of our
defence.
Th e SVK General Staff is busy upgrading military organization. Th e fi rst professional
units are being formed. We are on the way to establishing, within a short time, an army
of which our people and the Serbs worldwide will be proud.
We shall be capable of preventing and punishing every ustashi attack if we eliminate
indiscipline, black market practices, arbitrariness and abandonment of positions before
the enemy.
In line with the foregoing, and in order to eliminate all major shortcomings and
indiscipline in the SVK, I am hereby